DECEMBER 5
19 KISLEV, MOTZIE SHABBAT
WE BEGIN TO INCLUDE Veten Tal Umatar INTO THE SHEMONAH ESREI.
EZRAS TORAH : (EXCERPTS).
IF ONE BECAME AWARE AFTER THE COMPLETION OF THE BRACHA MVRACH HASH¹N¹M
THAT VETAIN WAS OMMITTED ³HE SHOULD WAIT TO INSERT IT RIGHT BEFORE
K¹ ATAH SHEMA OF SHEMA KOLENU. IF ONE HAD ALREADY COMPLETED THE BRACHA
SHEMA TEFILLAH, Veten Tal Umatar MAY BE INSERTED BEFORE SAYING R¹TZEH.
IF ONE BEGAN TO SAY R¹TZEH, ONE MUST RETURN TO THE BRACHA : BARACH OLENU,
WHICH IS THE PROPER PLACE FOR Veten Tal Umatar. IF ONE HAD ALREADY
COMPLETED THE SHEMONAH ESREI AND STEPPED BACKWARD, THEN ONE MUST REPEAT THE
ENTIRE SHEMONAH ESREI.
IN ANY SITUATION IN WHICH A PERSON MUST REPEAT THE SHEMONAH ESREI HE MAY
FULFILL HIS OBLIGATION BY LISTENING TO EVERY WORD OF THE CHAZZAN¹S
REPETITION FROM THE BEGINNING TO THE END, WHITH THE INTENTION OF THUS
FILFILLING HIS OBLIGATION.
(IT IS ADVISABLE TO REPEAT 101 TIMES (AT THE VERY LEAST 90 TIMES).
See the Rav for any questions.
R. Yosef Simcha Ginzburg, Rav of Omer says that we do not stop during
Davening to announce this change, we only knock on the Bimah as a reminder.
If one forgot and remembers at the next Tefillah he is to say the Amidah
twice, one for the Tefillah at hand and the second for the one before.
Notes:
From the Sephardic Institute on Vetain Tal Umatar.
http://www.judaic.org/halakhot/talumatar.pdf
